That word is so hard to utter that even when the scoundrel's hands are cherry-red and his tongue visibly forked, you almost never get more than "I have not been truthful."
When we wish to speak of our "good friend or friends," in our enlightened tongue, we stick to the one form and have no trouble or hard feeling about it; but with the German tongue it is different.
当我们想说我们的“好朋友(们)”时，只有一种形式，简单明了；到了德语里，可大相径庭了。
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The moment the pastille touched his tongue, the little wizard started vomiting so hard that he did not even notice as Hermione yanked a handful of hairs from the top of his head.